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Useful Wigtownshire Links
Please contact Leigh-Ann to report or suggest a new link. We'd be very grateful if you'd inform us of ANY broken link.
General Genealogy
Rootsweb
- all of its resources : http://rootsweb.com
- search the archives : http://searches2.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl
- search the SCT-Wigtownshire-L archives: http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=SCT-WIGTOWNSHIRE
- browse the Sct-Wigtownshire archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/SCT-WIGTOWNSHIRE/
- how to subscribe & unsubscribe from the Sct-Wigtownshire list: http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/SCT/SCT-WIGTOWNSHIRE.html
- All the mailing lists: http://lists.rootsweb.com/index.html
Cyndislist
- Main index: http://www.cyndislist.com/
- Scotland index: http://www.cyndislist.com/scotland.htm
LDS Family Search and associated sites
- Home page: http://www.familysearch.org/
- D. Will's Index to LDS film numbers for Scottish parishes, Old Parish Registers and Censuses: http://www.ktb.net/~dwills/scotref/13300-scottishreference.htm
- Hugh Wallis' IGI Batch Numbers: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hughwallis/IGIBatchNumbers.htm
Genuki
- Home page: http://www.genuki.org.uk/
- Scotland: http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/sct/
- Wigtownshire specific: http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/sct/WIG/
FreeBMD
- Free searchable index of Civil Registration births, marriages and deaths for England and Wales: http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/
- FreeCens - in progress transcription of UK census : http://freecen.rootsweb.com/
Scotland
- Scotlandspeople : http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/
- Scot Origins : http://www.scotsorigins.com/
- National Archives of Scotland (formerly the SRO - Scottish Record Office) : http://www.nas.gov.uk/
- Genuki's Intro to Scottish Family History : http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/sct/intro.html#bmd
- Scottish Genealogy Society : http://www.scotsgenealogy.com/
- Rampant Scotland : http://www.rampantscotland.com/genealogy.htm
- Statistical Accounts of Scotland : http://stat-acc-scot.edina.ac.uk/stat-acc-scot/stat-acc-scot.asp
- Scotland Clans : http://www.scotlandsclans.com/
Wigtownshire
- Dumfries & Galloway Family History Society : http://www.dgfhs.org.uk/
- Genuki Wigtownshire : http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/sct/WIG/
- The Scottish Page: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~scottish/
- Churches and Graveyards in Dumfries & Galloway : http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~dfsgal/
- Statistical Accounts for Scotland (1791-1799 & 1845) : http://stat-acc-scot.edina.ac.uk/stat-acc-scot/stat-acc-scot.asp?session-id=06b53855b33f37587abc8b63dd5ff60e&action=front%20page
- Tour of Dumfries and Galloway in Photographs : http://www.dumfriesandgalloway.co.uk/gallery/
- Galloway Kirkyard Memorial Inscriptions : http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~scottish/D-GInscriptions.html
- Dumfries & Galloway Museums & Galleries : http://www.dumfriesmuseum.demon.co.uk/frames.html
- Machars Action : http://www.macharsaction.co.uk
- Wigtownshire photos : http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~scottish/WigtownPhotos.html
- Dumfries and Galloway: Towns & Villages : http://www.dumfries-and-galloway.co.uk/sights/towns.htm
- D&G Council Information Service, 1851 census: http://www.dumgal.gov.uk/historicalindexes/census.aspx
- D&G Council Information, Shipping Registers: http://www.dumgal.gov.uk/historicalindexes/shipping.aspx
- 2% sampling of the 1851 Census (Sorbie) : http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~agene/census/wigsorbie.htm
- Population of Scotland : http://www.ancestor.abel.co.uk/county2.html#c33
- "Pigot & Slater's Topography" : http://www.staffs.ac.uk/schools/humanities_and_soc_sciences/census/pigot.htm#wigton
- Mull of Galloway & South Rhins : http://www.mull-of-galloway.co.uk/index.html
- South Rhins Community Development Trust : http://www.mull-of-galloway.co.uk/area/index.html
- Wigtownshire Home Page : http://www.rootsweb.com/~sctwig/wigtown.html
- 1881 Census: Residents of Poor House/Inch/Stranraer/Wigtown : http://users.ox.ac.uk/~peter/workhouse/Wigtownshire/Wigtownshire1881.html
- Ancestry.com, Parish & Probate Records, Wigtownshire : click here
- GC Book Publishers : http://www.gcbooks.demon.co.uk/shop.htm
- Kirkmaiden Information Centre: http://www.mull-of-galloway.co.uk/attractions/kirkmaiden.html
- Church of Kirkmaiden: http://www.btinternet.com/~ian.borthwick/LADAS/articles/kirkmaiden.html
- Newton Stewart: http://www.newtonstewart.org/attractions.htm
- Newton Stewart Museum: http://www.aboutbritain.com/NewtonStewartMuseum.htm
- Undiscovered Newton Stewart: http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/newtonstewart/newtonstewart/
- Undiscovered Wigtown: http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/wigtown/wigtown/
- Stranraer Area: http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/areastrn/index.html
- Wigtown Scotland's National Book Town: http://www.wigtown-booktown.co.uk/
- Portpatrick: http://www.portpatrick.co.uk/
Map and Telephone Sources
- National Library of Scotland : http://www.nls.uk/digitallibrary/map/early/index.html
- Genmaps : http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.co m/~genmaps/
- Ordnance Survey Maps : http://www.old-maps.co.uk/
- Old Ordnance Survey Maps : http://www.alangodfreymaps.co.uk/index.htm
- Multimap : http://uk.multimap.com/map/places.cgi/
- National Library of Scotland, old Wigtownshire maps : http://www.nls.uk/#
- UK Streetmap : http://www.streetmap.co.uk/
- Listing of UK Phone Nos. : http://www.infobel.co.uk/
Family History Societies
We encourage those interested in Wigtownshire genealogy to browse these sites, and consider joining one or more of these helpful Societies.
- The Dumfries & Galloway Family History Society : http://www.dgfhs.org.uk/
- Alloway & Southern Ayrshire : http://www.maybole.org/history/resources/asafhs.htm
- Glasgow & West of Scotland Family History : http://www.gwsfhs.org.uk/ Society
- Troon and District Family History Society : http://www.troonayrshirefhs.org.uk/
- North of Ireland Family History Society : http://www.nifhs.org/
Ranks, Professions, and Trades
Archaic Medical Terms
Currency
- current value of old money: http://www.ex.ac.uk/~RDavies/arian/current/howmuch.html
- how much is that worth today? : http://www.eh.net/ehresources/howmuch/poundq.php
- costs and wages : http://www.geocities.com/RodeoDrive/7503/greatbritainmoney.html
An IRC, or international reply coupon, is fairly expensive. It is cheaper to order stamps from philatelic societies and use them in lieu of an irc for a self-addressed envelope.
- http://www.stamps.org/ - U.S.
- http://www.royalmail.com/default.htm - U.K.
- http://www.canadapost.ca/personal/collecting/default-e.asp - Canada
- http://www.2.auspost.com.au/stamps/intro.asp - Australia
- Naming patterns :http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~scottish/ScottishNamingPatterns.html
- Glossary of Archaic terms : http://pro.wanadoo.fr/euroleader/wedderburn/glossary.htm
- Abbreviations : http://www.rootsweb.com/~rigenweb/abbrev.html and http://www.seascape.com/~myrona/NFMISC/abbrev.html
- Birth year calculator : http://olivetreegenealogy.com/misc/birthcalc.shtml
Acknowledgements
- Rob, The Mundesley Hermit (Thanks for our photo of Wigtown in 1895) : http://www.hermit.btinternet.co.uk/ -
Sct-Wigtownshire Member's Web Sites
- Elliott Evans Genealogy : http://freepages.genealogy. rootsweb.com/~leighann/index.html
- Wayne Hannay's personal site : http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~wghannay
- McNairn Family Resources : http://jamcnairn.com/mcnairn/
- Douglas homepage : http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/gemsonli/index.html
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